The Economy | How immigrants enrich America
Economists are people who can draw a straight line on a chart and call it a curve, so it's not surprising that they often have trouble getting their points across to the rest of us.
The protest music is starting (a few years too late in my opinion)…
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'! Edwin Starr got it wrong. "War," the Motown singer's 1970 hit, is not good for "absolutely nothin!' "
Images now hold the real power
As a book, "The Da Vinci Code" lit a flame. As a movie, however, it has unleashed a firestorm.Tom Teepen is an Atlanta-based columnist for Cox Newspapers It no doubt says something about "the times" - serious folks, you know, are always trying to parse "the times" - that we no longer seem to get much spooked by words but can work up a very great swivet over images at the drop of a fig leaf.
The future will be determined by global demography…
Phillip Longman is the most important man you've never heard of in Washington. A senior fellow at the liberal New America Foundation, Longman specializes in demography. If you're a romantic, demography is the science of love, writ large. If you're a cynic, it is the sausage factory of civilization. Whatever your disposition, demography is, if not destiny, then a subject of paramount importance. In the long run, no weapon, no technology, no economic system is more powerful.
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